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Architectural and Urban Composition
REGGIO DI CALABRIA
Overview
Date/time interval
Syllabus
Course Objectives
In order to achieve the expected results for the course program and the proposed experiment, the teaching program, divided into different activities, pursues the following objectives:
- Qualifying educational objectives: Theoretical and practical ability and autonomy to manage the project in its various figurative, functional, architectural, and urban aspects;
- - Specific educational objectives: ability to interpret the design of urban and/or architectural historical heritage in its dialectical relationships of conservation, restoration, and reuse.
Course Prerequisites
As a regulatory prerequisite, students must have passed the Architectural Design Laboratory 2 exam.
In terms of skills, students must be able to synthesise the various areas of knowledge and disciplines covered in previous years: figurative and cultural background in the field of architecture and art history, ability to interpret cities and contexts, relationship between structure/technology/architecture, ability to read and evaluate architectural and urban heritage, use of drawing forms (manual and digital) as forms of invention and representation of the project.
Teaching Methods
1. TIPOLOGIA DELLE ATTIVITÀ FORMATIVE:
Lezioni: (ore/anno in aula):30
Esercitazioni: (ore/anno in aula):20
Attività pratiche: (ore/anno in aula):10
Calendario delle attività formative: Come da calendario didattico il corso sarà svolto nel primo semestre
- LAVORO AUTONOMO DELLO STUDENTE
1 cfu=25 ore (10 ore frontale/15 a cura dello studente*)
- Approfondimento/studio su bibliografia (parte teorica): 35
- Preparazione verifiche (sperimentazione):35
- Preparazione esami:20
Assessment Methods
The assessments will be structured as follows:
1. midterm assessment on the lecture and seminar program
2. final assessment – Final Review/WORKSHOP
Exam format: Theory/Practice
The exam can be taken individually or in groups and can be taken after assessment and certification of attendance in class for no less than 70% of the hours established in the lesson calendar. The exam consists of the presentation and discussion of the project boards, an interview on the theoretical topics covered in the recommended bibliography, and the evaluation of the intermediate and accumulated work during the exercises and classroom workshops.
The final assessment will be a synthesis of the two modules that characterize the Laboratory.
Texts
- O. Amaro (2019) Progetto e archeologia nei paesaggi dell’obblio, in Calderoni A, Dipalma B, Nitti A, Oliva G, a cura di, Il progetto di Architettura come intersezione di saperi. Per una nozione rinnovata di patrimonio. vol. 1, p. 514-519, Società Scientifica Nazionale dei docenti di Progettazione Architettonica, (NA)
- Metamorfosi, n. 1-2/1985
‘ANATKH: Cultura, Storia e Tecnica della Conservazione n. 2/1993
- Casabella n. 636/1996
- Luciana Menozzi, con Alessandra Maniaci, a cura di, 1992, Le rovine nell’immagine del territorio calabrese, Roma, Gancemi ed.
- Alessandra Capuano, a cura di, 2014, Paesaggi di rovine e paesaggi rovinati, Roma, Quodlibet
- Alberto Ferlenga, 2014, Le strade di Pikionis, PA, Lettera Ventidue
Contents
1_DESCRIZIONE (massimo 1.500 battute)
“Il mondo formale nel quale viviamo è più ricco dell’antico, perché vi è compreso anche l’antico; nella nostra cultura l’antichità è un fatto <<contemporaneo>>; nella cultura non esiste antico: esiste la presenza simultanea e meravigliosa di ogni cosa antica ed attuale: e l’astrazione misteriosa del futuro”. (Giò Ponti)
The Architectural Design and Pre-existing Structures module, coordinated with the discipline of restoration within the Restoration Project Laboratory, addresses the theme of historical, architectural, and urban heritage design, in terms of context and artifacts. The educational objectives relate to the need for design synthesis to be achieved in the fifth year of the degree course. In other words, the aim is to pursue an awareness of design as a theoretical and practical complexity, a moment of synthesis between functional, tectonic, and formal relationships within a specific historical context. The encounter between history and architecture creates the complex coexistence of the present, past, and future, in a dimension in which the inevitable conflict between a scientific field and the more imaginary and evocative field of architecture takes place. In this sense, the module, also in the context of urban and architectural events, assigns history a dynamic and proactive value, in a concept of design that is not above the contemporary world, but rather repositioned within it, capable of reconstructing relationships with the past without renouncing its present existence.
2_PROGRAMMA DEL CORSO (massimo 3.000 battute)
Starting from the general educational objectives aimed at acquiring the project as a synthesis between theoretical foundations, expression of form, and technical-functional program in historical contexts, the course proposes the theme of a comprehensive and concrete intervention on a historical artifact within the historical fabric of Calabria. Through dialogue and dialectic between the two modules characterizing the Laboratory, students are called upon to reflect on the meanings of Conservation, Restoration, and Reuse.
"The analysis of the building, aimed at recognizing construction systems, the use of stratigraphic analysis of the elevations; the study of intervention techniques that are compatible with the existing structure and sustainable; the study of methods of material, volumetric, and functional integration, with specific reference to aspects related to the consolidation of existing structures; the design of accessibility of buildings and open spaces; plant engineering and functional aspects, with specific reference to the relevant regulations" explored in depth in the Restoration module (program by Prof. N. Sulfaro), will be placed in a dialectical comparison with the theme of the project as the enhancement and updating of the building identified for the design experiment.
The course focuses on integrating the theoretical and practical aspects underlying the project, divided into three phases:
- Theoretical lessons on the concepts of Restoration, Conservation, and Reuse, also in light of new sustainability demands and the dialectic with new scenarios that require new readings and interpretative tools, using concrete contemporary examples, both realized and unrealized.
- In-depth lessons on the concept of place/history/city, also with reference to the specific context proposed;
- Practical design experimentation through classroom exercises and a final workshop. The practical experimentation will follow the process of project construction in its scalar, functional, and figurative meaning through the forms of drawing as forms of architecture. The exercise will be completed with the drafting of the project at the appropriate scale and a 3,000-character written report on the theoretical description of the project and its bibliographical references.
3_RISULTATI ATTESI
The expected results relate to the acquisition of the project idea as a complexity of integrated relationships: historical, territorial, landscape, urban, functional, and environmental, which find their most direct and significant synthesis in architectural form.
In this sense, students are required to use and master specific disciplinary tools which, starting from an awareness of architectural, urban, and territorial processes, are capable of responding to evolving expressive connotations in tune with current changes and a critical capacity capable of dialoguing without flattening with productive and technological systems. This is in relation to the synthesis of the disciplines that contribute to the Restoration Project Laboratory.
Conoscenza e capacità di comprensione (knowledge and understanding);
Through theoretical study of the city in its historical evolution and design examples of historical architectural heritage, students will acquire knowledge of national and international scenarios with a dual focus on awareness of the field of investigation and critical understanding of significant experiences.
Conoscenza e capacità di comprensione applicate (applying knowledge and understanding);
The proposal of a course theme and therefore a concrete and subjective project in the field of historical architectural heritage constitutes the field of verification and application of the theoretical and practical knowledge assigned in the first phase of the course.
Autonomia di giudizio (making judgements);
Independent judgment is tested and verified through a specific project involving a historic architectural asset in terms of its structural, functional, spatial, and contextual variables. These variables constitute parameters for assessing the critical abilities of the student's choices in the context of the case study.
Abilità comunicative (communication skills);
The student's communication skills will be assessed on several levels: use of forms of invention and representation of the project in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional terms, based on the idea that the drawing writes and does not transcribe the project. These will be assessed together with the ability to organize and lay out the project in its form of representation for the communication and transmission of historical, figurative, spatial, and structural content.
Capacità di apprendere (learning skills).
The final exam will assess the degree of linguistic, compositional, and procedural autonomy that the student has acquired during the various stages of the course in the field of architecture and architectural composition, through a specific theme involving practical experimentation related to historical architectural heritage.